No I agree completely, the number of times I was shaking my head after a shanked 20m kick or missed simple handball was, well, way too high. The problem is it's been happening for several seasons now where we just can't get the basics right. It's just frustrating. However because of this our backline is under the pump more often than it should be, and with no Brown or Mackenzie, we could struggle a lot especially against the teams with particularly tall forward lines.Defense wasn't the issue for the Eagles though, composure was. Too many panicked handballs and hacked kicks. They were fine from the set piece, but fell apart when Bulldogs ramped up the pressure.
Numbers don't lie Bulldogs were simply more effective with their disposals. Priddis, Masten and Shuey got their hands on it a lot but certainly burnt a lot of it as well.
McGovern was superb down back and was definitely BOG for West Coast.
I felt Lycett was solid, but is capable of doing better.
Sheed stunk last night, 17 disposals with only 47% effective, 5 clangers and zero tackles. He seems to be a sitting duck when tackled, the ball always got trapped to his body, needs to work on carrying it above the pack. I'd like to see him get more games, but don't be surprised if he's back with East Perth next weekend.
Don't know how in the hell Brett Goodes won that free kick when he kamikazed himself into two guys' legs. But they let Gaff off the hook 10 minutes later. Have they just completely abandoned the sliding rule?
Schofield apparently left the East Perth game this weekend after a head knock, so with that and his ankle, I doubt he'll be back next week. But hopefully Bennell will be so Gaff can move further up into the midfield. Wouldn't mind seeing Murray get a run up forward either, after kicking 4.2 for the Royals. If we're going to patch holes down back, and Darling is still on the shelf until round four at best, maybe the forward line could do well getting smaller. They've played tall for a while now, and it certainly hasn't been a roaring success.
The panel reviewed all available vision of the Bugg-Riewoldt incident, including a reverse angle shot down the ground.
The ball was close to the boundary line with St Kilda’s Ahmed Saad under pressure from an opponent. Saad, who was being tackled, handballed the ball back towards teammates Josh Bruce and Riewoldt.
Bruce took possession of the ball while Riewoldt stepped back into the path of the oncoming Bugg.
Bugg made contact to Riewoldt's back front-on, and not with a bumping action.
It was the view of the panel that while Riewoldt would have earned a free kick for in the back if the contact had been seen by the umpire, Bugg’s actions were not unreasonable in the circumstances. No further action was taken.
Agree with the Murray Newman call too, filling our attacking small forward position would be a nice way to pay the club back after his issues.
David Parkin on ABC radio launched what for him was an unprecedented attack on Carlton, he suggested that three players basically "shirked the issue" and that he was ashamed to be known as a Carlton person because of it.Wow huge congratulations to West Coast supporters (go Freo let's beat the cats today), although beating Carlton is nothing to brag about it was simply brilliant football. Did anyone else notice how Carlton would not follow up anything, they weren't chasing for tackles or crumbing the ball in the forward line. Bryce Gibbs was the biggest culprit, he did not care.
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